Where the sights are stacked closest together
Two cities can offer the same number of things to see and feel completely different to visit, because in one of them everything is on the same square. This ranks the places in the collection by how many mapped landmarks fall on each kilometre of the route through them.
Most concentrated first
- London, United Kingdom14 landmarks over 840 m16.7 per km
- Rome, Italy14 landmarks over 900 m15.6 per km
- Tallinn, Estonia14 landmarks over 1.2 km11.9 per km
- Stockholm, Sweden14 landmarks over 1.2 km11.6 per km
- Valletta, Malta14 landmarks over 1.4 km9.8 per km
- Prague, Czech Republic14 landmarks over 1.5 km9.4 per km
- Oslo, Norway14 landmarks over 1.5 km9.2 per km
- Mexico City, Mexico14 landmarks over 1.5 km9.1 per km
- Dublin, Ireland14 landmarks over 1.6 km8.9 per km
- Ottawa, Canada14 landmarks over 1.6 km8.8 per km
- Riga, Latvia14 landmarks over 1.6 km8.8 per km
- Belgrade, Serbia14 landmarks over 1.6 km8.6 per km
How this was calculated
For each place, the number of mapped landmarks is divided by the length of the computed route that visits them all, starting from the city centre. Landmarks are Wikipedia articles with real coordinates within the place's radius; the route is computed from those coordinates. Places with fewer than eight landmarks are excluded, because a handful of points close together produces a high figure that means nothing. Distances are straight-line, so the true figure per walking kilometre is slightly lower everywhere — the ranking between places is unaffected.
Sources
Every figure above is computed from these sources at generation time. Where a place had no verifiable data, it was left out rather than estimated.